I wish this was going to be a how to, but it’s really a question, What is the best way to increase my hit points? I recently went into an instance with guilies and yes they are 70’s but is the hit points between 60 and 70 that high? I’m sitting at like 3400 HP, I’m made sure most my gear has high agility and my Cit is like 16% but do I need to rethink some of my gear and work toward a higher HP, being a rogue with only 3500HP I can sometimes get hit once or twice and I’m eating dirt.. any suggestions?

   Noob Question, from Me, When in an instance and you die a couple times, just how do you repair? I had no idea, Sunday afternoon I’m in an instance with some of the guild mates and when you’re doing AQ20 with 10 people and not everyone is 70, and you have a noob like me, bad things start to happen. I probably died 3 times before anyone else so my armor was starting to turn red, I was wondering what I could do, but there weren’t any NPC close, so I shrugged it off and still played but kept my distance, yeah range shots with a rogue just aren’t as fun.. Suddenly we have 2 wipes in a row and I hear one of the guildies say over Vent, “hey is there an NPC close to repair?”, With my armor at ZERO! I listened! A reply comes back, no but I have a couple repair bots in my bag.. What? What is a repair bot??

   I guess at level 300 you can get a recipe to build a [Repair Bot] but many engineers didn’t create them because they were so expensive. Now after patch 2.3 the price has come down and you create 5 instead of one. As an engineer at level 250, this is one of the things I will make sure I always have created and in my bag once I hit that level. This bot could make or break an instance. Not only does it repair but you can also sell items to it and buy many NPC items including the highest ranking shot and arrows. With this bot you could easily become someones best friend.

   Being a part of the Blog Azeroth forums is great and many have decided to try something a bit different, Shared Topics. Someone in the forums will suggest a topic and the results will be many blogs in the WoW community will post their thoughts, answers and experiences of the said topic..

   So let’s start Shared Topic #1
What do you enjoy about your Rogue?

   My Main is a Rogue, being the secret, quiet one of the bunch, helps when I need that extra helping hand, specially when soloing. I get so use to stealthing past baddies on some of the harder quest, while I watch others try their hardest to fight their way up a stair way or through a cave to get to the quest item. Why wouldn’t you love to stealth past the mobs, kill the “quest boss” and move on with your leveling? Lets not stop there, we have poisons to slowly injure or slow down our opponents, back stabs and special skill that on some of the beast, they just never saw it coming. So why do I love playing a Rogue, I’m sneaky.. the complete opposite of me in RL. It’s a get away, a fairy tail, I can be partialy evil with out being Evil.. (boo Horde )

   I would guess many of the reasons I love playing a rogue are many of the same reasons people hate the rogues when they come up against us in PVP or in BGs. Now you see me, now you don’t!

   I’ve been level 60 now for about a week, mostly because I haven’t had the chance for any extended play but one thing I have noticed is my XP slow down. Being fairly new to the game, I was in my low 20’s when patch 2.3 came out, this is the patch that made leveling much quicker, but I forgot, it was only for levels 20-60. Now that I’ve hit 60 I can see just how much of a difference it’s made. There were a couple of Saturdays where I would ding 2 levels in one day, even in my 40’s and 50’s.

   Right now I writing this post from a cabin in the NC Mountains, where my Wife and I are spending the weekend, so that’s another reason I’m still at 60, but it’s a good reason, because remember if momma’s happy, we get to play WoW more jokin..

   I should be back into the swing of things by Tuesday and I’m hoping to hit 62 by Wednesday.. Ok Friday. Have a good Weekend.

   I was thinking last night, What started me on this long and addictive gaming called MMO’s and I began to remember my first MMO. **ScoobyDo dream sequence** The year is 1996, just a year before I had started working at an Internet Provider because after getting my first internet bill of 130.00 I know I had to some how get it for free instead of paying by the hour, yes back then you paid for internet by the hour. I had been messing around with MUD’s (Multi-User Dungeon) but they were only text, I started to hear about a graphical MUD coming out by Sierra On-Line called The Realm. Why not I’ll try it, so I sign up and like World of Warcraft there was a fee to play. This was also the first time I ever used a credit card online and also the first (and only) time my credit card # was stolen (had to be someone at Sierra). I’m not sure how long I played but I do remember on holidays GM’s would just drop items around the world. On easter we found eggs, Christmas there were presents, just like winter vail. Oh and they had player housing also (Hint WoW) you had a chest in your house to store things and (if I remember correctly) you could stand complete suits of armor and prize trophies in your room. Here are a couple other images I found online of the game.

   When hitting 60, it seems the only thing I could think of is getting my faster mount, At about level 50, I figured it was going to be around 600 Gold so I started saving. I would be at about 700G, buy some gear, food and things off the AH, but always kept my gold around 550+. So the day comes, I ding 60, YES time for my mount, Zone home, Fly to SW and make the run to the trainer. All the while broadcasting in guild chat that I had finally hit 60, I’m getting my mount.

   The trainer and I happen to be friends, she works for someone I’ve done some quest for and my rep helped also, so my total for training and the horse come to 595G, yes! I have 598G, I buy my mount and I’m happily on my way, riding around, faster than light (well faster than my other mount I named Light). Once I get tired of riding around, I figure what’s next, I’m 60!! oh yeah, skill training, I visit the rogue trainer and I guess he’s not really my friend, because for some reason he will not train me… What? Skill Training cost gold? I had totally forgotten, you get so use to just going up, clicking on all the training and not thinking that it’s taking your gold as you train.

   Fine, I’ll sell stuff on AH, go to the bank, pull out a ton of junk that’s been sitting in there.. I’m sure you see where this is going.. What? Gold to sell stuff on AH.. HELP!!! After many many laughs at the noob on Guild chat, a fellow guildie loaned me 100G to help me along.. I felt sooo stupid! (specially after writing about how can 70’s not have gold)It hasn’t taken long to remake that 100g but I may wait another week to repay him, I want to get a nice nest egg set before giving it back (which he said I didn’t have to but I will, even if it just goes in the guild bank). I guess this could be counted as Noobie Example #2 (see Noobie Example #1)

   Now that I’m level 60 I’m starting to get to the levels where I can share in some of the things that my guildies do. Sunday afternoon in guild chat, someone says they are going to do a Zul’Gurub run for the fun of it and asked if anyone wanted to join. Still being use to soloing and usually not being high enough level to join the raid groups I passed on it, till I got a few tells asking if I was coming. OK, I think I can avoid the wife for an hour or so

   I’ve never been in a large raid group and when I say large I mean over 5 people lol, At least 13 of us entered all 70 except 2 of us. At first seeing that many people together was a bit confusing, but as I started to watch people, listed to the raid leader on voice chat and watch some more things started to come to me and Bosses started to fall. Being lower level and a noobie, I did make some mistakes, Pull some aggro and die 3 times but it was all a learning process.

   Since most everyone was level 70 all needs went to myself and one other, then everyone else could greed… and let me say the drops were good for a rogue. With a couple hours and a little help from my friends I walked out of Zul’Gurub with [Warblade of the Hakkari] , [Seal of Jin] , [Mandokir’s Sting] , [Arlokk’s Grasp] , [Heart of Hakkar] , [Primal Hakkari Armsplint] , [Primal Hakkari Girdle] , a couple nice rings and with turning in quest got Epic shoulders and bracers. I would have to say it was a good run, I know they don’t ever work out that way but I’m glad it did this one time.. Check me out at the WoW Armory

   It’s the same o’story, you’re about to hit that milestone that is 40, 50 or 60, you can’t wait, you’ll be getting a new mount, better equ and new skills. You work for days grinding and finding those quest you’ve missed and it finally happens, DING! you’re there.. You fly back to town, get your mount or what ever new toy is at that level, find the trainer and see if you get a new skill not just an upgrade to your old ones, hit AH and find those new purples you’ve been eyeing and then… You realize, you’re back at zero.

   These are the times that I start to slow down a bit, you realize you now have to do it all over again, move to a new area, grab 20 yellow !’s and start questing. Seeing those new areas does keep it new and exciting but also not knowing the area and where all the baddies that will kill you are hiding makes for a little slower progression also. BUT, you do have that new gear you just picked up at the AH and need to build your skill in what ever weapon you have. By looking at smaller goals to overcome and not the 10 levels you see still ahead (before you do it again) it will be no time untill you’re at 49, 59 or even looking 70 in the eye

   Being able to look into Outland was great and all but walking around can get a bet hazardous to my health, so it was back to the pre-BC world for 2 more levels. For the last 2 nights I’ve slowly moved closer and closer to level 60. Finishing off a couple quest in Winterspring that gave me over 11K of XP each helped and then some random killing have taken me to level 59 with 33% to go.

   One thing I need to sit down and do is clear out any old quest i’ve done and get rid of any old quest materials I have in my bag. I’ve wondered why I feel like I can’t carry very much, So checking my bag I see I have about 20 slots taken but quest objects, So time for spring cleaning.

   Using ArkInventory Found here you can split your bag into different sections, then with a quick glance of your bag, you know exactly what you have. I’ve split my bags into sections that show just food, soulbound objects, items for trade skills, mounts and then a large open section for what’s left, usually things to sell on AH. With this system, I no longer search each square finding what i’m looking for, I usually know which section to look into and find things fairly easy.

   I know this just became a addon post and not about me hitting 60 but I’m starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.. oh wait.. doesn’t everyone say “don’t go toward the light!”

   If you ever think you’re going to be close to death for a week, make sure your toon is sitting in an Inn. The last 2 weeks have been tough, usually if I’m sick, I can still sit a couple hours in front of the PC and get some leveling or blogging done, but not this time, spending days at a time on the couch and watching BAD TV is what I’ve been doing. Finally Saturday I was able to login to WoW and was happy to see I had parked my toon in an Inn and now had 61K of bonus XP (Woohoo). Saturday I was able to hit level 56 and 57, then Sunday I hit 58.. Woohoo Outland! I couldn’t wait, I took a small tour of Outland or at least Hellfire Peninsula and then before bed last night a few guildies ran me through Hellfire Ramparts and The Blood Furnace. I now am about 80% into level 58, slowly climbing to 60

   When running through Hellfire Ramparts and Blood Furnace, it seemed all the drops were for hunters and not my Rogue, but the XP was great! This being one of the first instances that I actually helped and wasn’t just run through, I learned alot. I learned of some of the skills I need to work on for my rogue, like lock picking to my level (we had to skip a check because I couldn’t open it). Before heading into an instance, if I have time, read a little on what to expect, I didn’t expect the techs to be dropping mines and also that I could disarm them. This led me to dieing a couple times and almost one complete wipe (mines, me being low pulled 2 mobs, it wasn’t pretty). Other things this run helped on was learning how the group works together, from the symbols of who to attack first to just watching what others are doing instead of just yourself (this is huge and a hard thing to learn, it took probably 3/4 of the night till a couple light bulbs came on and I started watching who and what the leader was doing, where others are standing and really keeping an eye on my health and aggro.)

   All in all the run was great, yes at times I looked like a noob (and am!) I did have the group laughing at my noobness but I learned alot with that first grouping, I’m just glad that I’m with a guild that will run you through things like that, help you with your mistakes, explain things to you but still laugh at you. Thanks Guys..